The website is a social networking place for radicals that other social media sites would ban instantly. For a poetry site to have a place called "The Adult Pub" which consists of members who say racist things and promote antisemitism. I have been told numerous times by the site owner that it isn't a part of the website, yet there is a direct link. Instead of ownership removing a pointless aspect of a poetry website, he and his moderators simply allow radicalism to grow and spread their hatred.
I wouldn't spend a dime on this website until such things are removed. You are better off joining a Facebook poetry group or another website that doesn't foster white nationalists, nazis and other forms of bigotry and racism.
Sorry you had a bad experience. The "radicals" as you call them used to cause problems in the poetry areas of the site (the real site!) so, exiling them to the mean forum worked well. While that forum is not moderated, if there's something you feel needs removing, you can still contact our moderators and they'll take action if something is breaking our rules. We don't tolerate racism or anti-seminitism.